Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1887-06-16
GENERAL

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HOUSES in Hamburg, Germany, occupied
by IL. 600 persons. have been demonsned to
make space for the new canal and harbor.
A COLLISION occurred recently in the
English channel between the British bark
Hamburg, Captain Caldwell, from New
York for Liverpool, and the British steamer
Tern. The steamer was sunk and her cap
tain and four seamen were drowned
RETURNS issued by the English Board OF
Trade show that the imports during May
decreased e1,OOO, 900 compared with the
corresponding month of last year. Exports
increased e3O0,O0O
NONE of the Parnellite members of Par
lament will attend the jubilee services in
Westminster Abbey
SUTTON & Co., clipper ship owners, have
entered protest against the suspension OF
the fourth section of the Interstate Com
merce law as regards the transcontinental
roads.
MUCH discomfort has been awakened in
Cuba by the receipt of a telegram from
Spain announcing the formation of new
division, which will have the effect of sup
pressing the provinces of Matanzas and
Pinar Del Rio.
BRoNCBo BILL and Red Shirt visited the
House of Commons the other night in their
war paint and were presented 20 Baron de
Worms, who asked them what they thought
of Parliament. Red Shirt replied that he
didn't think much of it; that laws were
passed much quicker in America than in
England.
SLIGHT shocks of earthquake were felt in
the City of Mexico during three days re-
Gently.
ALL the old directors of the Suez Canal
Company were reelected in Paris on the
Sth. The receipts were reported as 81 ,OoO,-
600 less in 1856 than in 1885.
IT is reported that the Paris exhibition
will be postponed until 1890
HERMANN, the veteran prestidigitateur,
died at Carlsbad, Germany, recently aged
sixty-six.
NOTES to the amount of sos, 600 have been
distracted from letters in the mails be-
tween Prague and Vienna
THE Soudanese Mahdi has decided not to
attack the frontiers of Egypt, as such hos
tilities would only prolong the British oc-
cupation.
THE dwelling of A. Brown was burned at
Bedford, Ont, the other morning. Four
small children, all under ten years of age,
persisted in the flames. The parents, with
baby, barely escaped with their lives.
COPELAND & MCLAREN, importers and
commission merchants of Montreal, have
made an assignment. Liabilities, 100000;
assets, SIS, 900.
AN explosion of fire damp occurred in a
coal pit at Geltenkirchen in Westphalia,
Germany, on the Sth. Fifty-six lives were
lost, the bodies of forty-four being re-
covered.
EDITOR O'BRIEN sailed on the steamer
Adriatic for England on the Sth.
1T is reported in Canada that the Marquis
of Lansdowne is to be made Duke at the
Queens jubilee.
United Ireland, Parnells organ, urges the
Irish people to further patience. 1t de-
nounces those men who advocate retalia-
ton for the oppression of the Irish, and
says that such a course would undo the
work of Parnell had accomplished during a
decade of terrible years, and the work TO
which Gladstone was devoting the evening
of his life.
THE Government of Honduras has COM
planned to Secretary Bayard of hlibuster-
ing expedition fitting out at Savannah, Ga
A DISPATCH announces that the Spanish
Sooloo expedition, consisting OF 500 men,
has captured fortified rebel village on the
island of Tapula. After severe fighting
and heavy losses on both sides, the rebels
submitted.
HENRY B. CLIFFORD has succeeded with
the first mineral and land concession ever
made by the Mexican Government The
tract embraces 60, O00, 600 acres in the States
of Durango, Chihuahua and Sinaloa on the
Sierra Madres, and was secured under very
favorable terms.
DISPATCHES from Rangoon and Mandalay
report distressing scarcity of food in Up
per Burmah, owing to the total failure of
the rice and other crops. Relief was being
sent.
THE barber of the White Star steamer
Germanic committed suicide at sea recent
ly by jumping overheard.